Afterwards, I would feel bad for having wasted so much time doing unproductive things, that I'd work extra hard, and usually late into the night.

事后，我就会对浪费了这么多时间去做没有效益的事而后悔。我不得不更努力地去工作，而且往往工作到深夜。

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In fact the time spent on it had been thoroughly wasted; much more so to my mind than if it had been wasted in doing nothing.

事实上，我们花在这门功课上的时间完全浪费了；而对于我们的心灵，这比什么都不做还要浪费。

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Little Franz wished he had never wasted so much time in the woods.

小弗朗兹(过去)真希望他从未在树林里浪费那么多的时间。

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Conservative frontbencher James Gray instead argued voters would be puzzled why so much time was being wasted on hunting when soldiers were dying in Iraq and the NHS was in "crisis".

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According to Schaffer Consulting managing partner Ron Ashkenas, the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline realized that so much of their time was being wasted on unnecessary meetings.

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